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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.
Consonant
ALTA
Standard deviation
Middle English
2. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Chall's Stage 5
Suffix
Anna Gillingham
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
3. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Progress Monitoring
Matthew Effect
Adolf Kusmaul
Latin layer of language
4. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Pre-English
The Norman Conquest
Tactile
Standard Scores
5. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
WRAT
Chall's Stage 1
IDEA
Modern English
6. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents
IDEA
Towre
Grapheme
Academic Achievement Tests
7. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Syllable Instruction
NICHD
Towre
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
8. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.
Modern English
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Cognitive Assessment
ADHD
9. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Stanine Scores
Macron
RTI
Base Word
10. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.
Semantics
Rate
Top-down Reading Approach
Affix
11. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Keith Stanovich
Academic Achievement Tests
Anna Gillingham
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
12. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
IMSLEC
Age equivalent
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Towre
13. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Modification
Sight Words
Synthetic Instruction
Matthew Effect
14. Multisensory Structured Language Education
MSLE
Cognitive Assessment
Chall's Stage 1
Funding
15. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.
ESL
Phonemic Awareness
Towre
Old English
16. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
Curriculum referenced tests
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Modification
Progress Monitoring
17. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Academic Achievement Tests
IEP
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Keith Stanovich
18. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Battery
Phonemic Awareness
Chall's Stage 4
Texas Education Code 28.06
19. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Multisensory
Auditory Processing
Morphology
Diphthong
20. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
VAKT
Morpheme
Analytic
21. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Fluency
Matthew Effect
Semantics
Suffix
22. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Chall's Stage 1
Standardized test
VV
Semantics
23. English as a second language
Comprehension
Social language
ESL
Affix
24. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
WRAT
CTOPP
James Hinshelwood
Suffix
25. State Board of Eduation
SBOE
Ability
VC
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
26. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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27. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Six basic types of syllables
MSLE
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
RTI
28. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Funding
Chall's Stage 4
Raw score
29. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Frank Smith
VC
Funding
Grapheme
30. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Cedilla
Syllable
Modern English
Chall's Stage 4
31. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Joe Torgesen
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Standard deviation
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
32. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Pre-English
Towre
Components of Reading Instruction
Linguistic Method
33. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Vr
Diphthong
Derivative
Morphology
34. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
Letter naming Chart
Phonics approach
Modern English
Auditory Learners
35. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Visual Processing
Breve
Macron
Chall's Stage 5
36. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Middle English
Diagnostic tests
Chall's Stage 4
Synthetic Instruction
37. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Ability
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Raw score
Auditory Processing
38. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
IMSLEC
RTI
Semantics
Affix
39. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
James Hinshelwood
Grade equivalents
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
IEP
40. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Three Layers of Language
Base Word
Modern English
41. Feeling through fingertips
Syllable Instruction
Greek layer of language
Letter naming Chart
Tactile
42. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Expressive language
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Reliability
Modification
43. Whole body learning
Letter naming Chart
Digraph
Derivative
Kinesthetic
44. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Multi-Sensory Approach
Prefix
Mathew Effect
45. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
Matthew Effect
Direct Instruction
Linguistic Method
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
46. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag
The Norman Conquest
Consonant
Sound Symbol Association
MSL
47. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Composite Score
Funding
Pre-English
Impulsivity
48. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Adolf Kusmaul
Vowel
Auditory Learners
49. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Greek layer of language
Reliability
Sound Symbol Association
Standard Scores
50. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl
Whole Language
Keith Stanovich
Consonant Digraph
Orthography